Quotes by Women Novelists

Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?

Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.

Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations, chance illnesses, death, murder, and all kinds of other tragedies. Lovers are meant to look up at the sky, for up there no beautiful illusions can be trampled upon.

V. C. Andrews
V. C. Andrews
There are deep lines on each side of his mouth and I know they are the scars from the thin blade of life.

Finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

K. A. Applegate
K. A. Applegate
No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

Connie Willis
Connie Willis
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.

Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

Jan Karon
Jan Karon
The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.

There are those people who love their mothers, just so; and there are those who, out of whatever accident of temperament have to be in love with them.

Patriotism was a great thing but it worked best when it was tempered by common sense.

Jayne Ann Krentz
Jayne Ann Krentz
She said, 'God knows they owe me nought,
I tossed them to the foaming sea,
I tossed them to the howling wastes,
Yet still their love comes home to me.'

You are my country, Desdemona.... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

Things get passed around so easily on the Internet. Fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact.

That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special — these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.

I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.

Jo Walton
Jo Walton
It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

Martha Finley
Martha Finley
Thou hast only to follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it.

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

The gorilla is a strict vegetarian like the elephant and buffalo — three of the four most dangerous animals in Africa. It behooves one to walk softly with vegetarians.